A pilot was killed Friday when two glider planes crashed in the air over Upstate New York, police said.A pilot was killed Friday when two glider planes crashed in the air over Upstate New York, police said.

The aircraft collided around 2:30 p.m. in Edinburg, a town roughly 20 miles from Saratoga Springs.

One plane landed safely at the nearby Plateau Sky Ranch Airport, while the second crashed in a heavily wooded, remote area, investigators said.

It took more than two hours for investigators to find the destroyed Schempp-Hirth Ventus-2B off Sand Lake Road, roughly six miles from where the surviving Schempp-Hirth Ventus-2B landed.